Laboratory Notebooks

Lab notebook

From the very beginning of your research activities, it is important to
keep a laboratory notebook. This is for a number of reasons. First of
all, it will help you to keep a complete and chronological track record
of your experiments. Furthermore, it will provide a person who will
continue your research work with all necessary information to allow them
to repeat (or not) and extend (or focus) your work. Correct record
keeping of all your original work is essential to allow Vrije
Universiteit Brussel and Erasmushogeschool Brussel to defend their intellectual property rights.
When properly kept, a laboratory notebook is a permanent record that
can be referred to in order to prove what was done during the course of a
project and particularly what inventions were made by whom and when.